Subject: Re: Pine vs. IMAP mail storage

From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 14:27:19 -0800

Which IMAP server are you using?  The IMAP protocol does not have any
relationship to the format of the message store.  The UW IMAP server
supports all of the folder formats that either Unix or PC Pine do.
Other IMAP servers (e.g. Cyrus) have their own proprietary formats.

--DLM

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On 23 Jan 1997, Jim Kieley wrote:

> From: Jim Kieley <^ß^ß^ß^ß^C^ßúÈ^F^A^H^H^F^A6·[email-masked]>
> Newsgroups: comp.mail.pine
> Subject: Pine vs. IMAP mail storage
> Date: 23 Jan 1997 18:17:06 GMT
> Organization: Office of Information Technologies, Pomona College
> Message-ID: <[email-masked]>
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> We have a number of users who have default Pine mail archives that were 
> originally created either with PC Pine or UNIX Pine.  These users need to 
> convert these file-style archives to a conventional IMAP format.  More 
> specifically, although there are difference between the way PC and UNIX Pine 
> name and perhaps store mail by default, they both use flat files.  So, 
> several messages that make up a given folder are contained in a single file.  
> Other IMAP clients by default create folders that are similar to the INBOX.  
> That is, they create a directory on the server within which is a file for 
> each individual message.  These folders are structured like the INBOX.  
> 
> What we'd like to do is be able to convert Pine-style folder files containing 
> multiple messages to directories within which each message is a separate 
> file.  This will make all mail accessible from various IMAP clients we are 
> using including appropiately configured Pine clients. 
> 
> mbxcvt and mbxcopy do not seem to be the ticket. Any suggestions?
> 
> Jim Kieley 
> The Claremont Graduate School
> [email-masked]
> 
>

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From: [email-masked] (Jie Yuan)
Date: 23 Jan 1997 22:16:51 GMT

[Posted and mailed]

I wonder if you can take a different approach.  I have seen IMAP clients that 
can access the "folders" that Pine created on the Unix host, and use them as
such.  For example, Mail Drop and Simeon (on Mac), ML (on Unix) can all do
this.  Simeon is cross platform client (PC/Unix/Mac).  Check IMAP home for
more clients.

Jie
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